moving...
to
anshprat.wordpress.com
reasons:
1) I dont like the Google servers holding any and everything about me..
2) wordpress SEO is much better than blogspot
3) To try out more OSS things..
Monday, September 03, 2007
Sunday, September 02, 2007
The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, or WHATWG, is a community of people interested in evolving HTML and related technologies. The WHATWG was founded by individuals from Apple, the Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software.[1] Ian Hickson, the editor of the WHATWG specifications, has since moved to Google. Chris Wilson of Microsoft was invited but did not join citing the lack of a patent policy to ensure all specifications can be implemented on a royalty-free basis.[2]
The WHATWG has a small invite-only steering committee called “Members” who have the power to impeach the editor of the specifications. Anyone can participate as a Contributor by joining the WHATWG mailing list. The mailing list has about 700 subscribers.
The WHATWG was formed in response to the slow development of web standards monitored by the W3C. The WHATWG mailing list was announced on 4 April 2004,[3] two days after the initiatives of a joint Opera–Mozilla position paper had been voted down by the W3C members at the W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents.[4]
On 2007-04-10, the Mozilla Foundation, Apple and Opera Software proposed[5] that the new HTML working group of the W3C adopt the WHATWG’s HTML5 as the starting point of its work and name its future deliverable "HTML 5". On 2007-05-09, the new HTML working group resolved to do that.[6]
Specifications
The WHATWG has been actively working on two documents.
- HTML 5 (formerly titled Web Applications 1.0) is the fifth major version of the HTML and has been adopted by the W3C as the starting point of the work of the new HTML working group.
- Web Forms 2.0 is an update to HTML forms. The spec will no longer be developed standalone but the features will be folded into HTML 5.
Additionally, there is a very early draft called Web Controls 1.0, which is not actively being worked on.
hi again..
after a long time am posting a blog about my own life..
well its going at a pretty good enough rate ..lolz..
well there arent many things at the moment about which I should be worried at the moment.
Actually there aint much to talk about rt now..
busy learning a couple of new things..
a couple of words which are around me now a days..
analyst
jumbled thoughts
garbled
sceptic
me!!!
after a long time am posting a blog about my own life..
well its going at a pretty good enough rate ..lolz..
well there arent many things at the moment about which I should be worried at the moment.
Actually there aint much to talk about rt now..
busy learning a couple of new things..
a couple of words which are around me now a days..
analyst
jumbled thoughts
garbled
sceptic
me!!!
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Human mind..
Its really surprising how fast your mood can change.. just a couple of minutes ago, i was in a happy mood.. happy coz of a certain friend.. and thinking abt no one else but emma.. (yeah Emma Watson.. the Hermione of Harry Potter or should I rather say Hermione Weasley.. ) And just then she scraps me and am now all mad and angry at her.. thought its nothing much but it just shows how volatile the human nature / mood can be..?? Or is it just me..??!! Hey, but am also human rt..?? :O
Its really surprising how fast your mood can change.. just a couple of minutes ago, i was in a happy mood.. happy coz of a certain friend.. and thinking abt no one else but emma.. (yeah Emma Watson.. the Hermione of Harry Potter or should I rather say Hermione Weasley.. ) And just then she scraps me and am now all mad and angry at her.. thought its nothing much but it just shows how volatile the human nature / mood can be..?? Or is it just me..??!! Hey, but am also human rt..?? :O
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Memories n the future..
Got a mail from annie.. though it was just a notice/info mail sent to all her friends list but still it was a nice reminiscence from the back..
I have quit ,first as the president of RMI, the oncampus Robotics and machines Intelligence group, an affiliated group of IEEE, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineer and then left it in its entirety.. that is ceased to be its member either. That I did so a sto better manage my studies. But now I have taken up the managership of Pragyan 's CSG. Don't know how much of help and how much of hindrance its gonna be for my future. Hope am able to discharge my responsiblites well and to every one's satisfaction, including my parents, i.e, I get a decent enough GPA and a "good" enough job.
Talked to mimi after a very long period of time. I was having my reservations on that front as well, but with her I think I can let things go the way they are going.
Got a mail from annie.. though it was just a notice/info mail sent to all her friends list but still it was a nice reminiscence from the back..
I have quit ,first as the president of RMI, the oncampus Robotics and machines Intelligence group, an affiliated group of IEEE, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineer and then left it in its entirety.. that is ceased to be its member either. That I did so a sto better manage my studies. But now I have taken up the managership of Pragyan 's CSG. Don't know how much of help and how much of hindrance its gonna be for my future. Hope am able to discharge my responsiblites well and to every one's satisfaction, including my parents, i.e, I get a decent enough GPA and a "good" enough job.
Talked to mimi after a very long period of time. I was having my reservations on that front as well, but with her I think I can let things go the way they are going.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Hari got placed with IBM today.. News like that brings smile to your face.. Hari has been the one person who has inspired me to learn the most.. and even though he might not even know that but hes one person whom am sure a hell lot of person take as an idol.. maybe including myself..
His soft spoken nature really inspires you .. and his modesty is one of its kind.. There are quite a lot of unspoken words within me, which, well.. err, will remain unspoken.. And knowing myself, it seems difficult that I ll be sharing quite of myself with anyone else..
His soft spoken nature really inspires you .. and his modesty is one of its kind.. There are quite a lot of unspoken words within me, which, well.. err, will remain unspoken.. And knowing myself, it seems difficult that I ll be sharing quite of myself with anyone else..
Friday, August 10, 2007
Every time I see her, a sudden pulse races through me, or rather the right word would be , I miss a heartbeat. And the worst part is that its more as if I want to escape. I can call her up if I want but is it worth it? Maybe I am being a fool. But maybe being all by myself without really ever sharing myself is the best way I can do for myself.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
wikipedia installation is goiing on. Finally the things that worked for me is this..
importDump.php
MediaWiki 1.5 and above includes a command-line script 'importDump.php' which can be used to import an XML page dump into the database. This requires first configuring and installing MediaWiki. It's also VERY slow; to import a large Wikipedia data dump into a fresh database you may wish to use MWDumper, however, mwdumper has compatibility problems with some Linux Distributions and does not provide robust error reporting. Please see the installation notes concerning mwdumper for a list of known problems and systems affected by problems with mwdumper.
As an example invocation, when you have an XML file called temp.xml
php maintenance\importDump.php < maintenance\temp.xml
As an example invocation, when you have an XML file called temp.xml with an output log and in the background:
php maintenance\importDump.php <>& progress.log &
You can then display the log entries real time to the console screen by using the tail command. This command also allows you to break out of the program and reinvoke it periodically to check the status of your import:
tail -f progress.log
For more on this topic visit the given link
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Surprise, Surprise..
Suren's post is just a few days old.. but yet it comes as the first result on google when i search for Anshu Prateek. hmm.. time to switch to wordpress..?? Even though blogspot is now a google service, am a bit tempted to switch to wordpress especially after using their wordpress mu for the LAN.
Suren's post is just a few days old.. but yet it comes as the first result on google when i search for Anshu Prateek. hmm.. time to switch to wordpress..?? Even though blogspot is now a google service, am a bit tempted to switch to wordpress especially after using their wordpress mu for the LAN.
busy yet ..
installing the fresh dump of wikipedia for the college LAN. After a few failures by using xml2sql,etc, Now am using mwdumper and directly putting the data into mysql. Here is one of the best pages that I found for installing wikipedia on a local computer. PS: Am working on Fedora 7. Windows user may find this useful. Other than this, there is also webaroo for windows. I have even tested this with windows Vista. The webaroo uses about 5.5 GB of disk space. Whereas the actual wikipedia dump for august is about 12 GB in xml format and 2.6 GB approx in bz2 format. The latest dumps can be downloaded from here. As to what you should download from there, read this.
Another important thing to be installed for wikipedia offline usage is mediawiki.
Here is an easy way of installing wikipedia for offline usage on a fedora based system..
Steps to get mwdumper to work on Redhat and Fedora Core Linux Distros with mysql 5.x
* 1. Destroy any existing database: i.e. mysqladmin drop -p (enter root db password)
* 2. Recreate the database: i.e. mysqladmin create -p (enter root db password)
* 3. DO NOT install MediaWiki until the database in uploaded. If MediaWiki is installed, mwdumper may not work.
* 3. Run the tables.sql function supplied with MediaWiki from the MediaWiki root directory: i.e. mysql -u root -p < maintenance/tables.sql
* 4. Start mwdumper: i.e. java -jar mwdumper.jar --format=sql:1.5 | mysql -u root -p
* 5. You will have to manually enter admin status for WikiSysop accounts and run the upgrade.php script on the MediaWiki database in order to obtain WikiSysop access or install over the previous MediaWiki installation and import the databases in order to activiate the WikiSysop account. Add the following MediaWiki PHP file to your /maintenance directory by cutting and pasting the text, and name the file createBcrat.php, then recreate the WikiSysop account by executing the example scripts provided. The attached PHP file is for the MediaWiki 1.9.3 release.
file createBcrat.php
/**
* Maintenance script to create an account and grant it administrator and bureaucrat group membership
*
* @package MediaWiki
* @subpackage Maintenance
* @author Rob Church
* @author Jeff Merkey
*/
require_once( 'commandLine.inc' );
if( !count( $args ) == 2 ) {
echo( "Please provide a username and password for the new account.\n" );
die( 1 );
}
$username = $args[0];
$password = $args[1];
echo( wfWikiID() . ": Creating and promoting User:{$username}..." );
# Validate username and check it doesn't exist
$user = User::newFromName( $username );
if( !is_object( $user ) ) {
echo( "invalid username.\n" );
die( 1 );
} elseif( 0 != $user->idForName() ) {
echo( "account exists.\n" );
$user->addGroup( 'sysop' );
$user->addGroup( 'bureaucrat' );
$ssu->doUpdate();
echo( "done.\n" );
die( 1 );
}
# Insert the account into the database
$user->addToDatabase();
$user->setPassword( $password );
$user->setToken();
# Promote user
$user->addGroup( 'sysop' );
$user->addGroup( 'bureaucrat' );
# Increment site_stats.ss_users
$ssu = new SiteStatsUpdate( 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 );
$ssu->doUpdate();
echo( "done.\n" );
?>
Steps to recreate WikiSysop and add the account to groups "sysop" and "bureaucrat"
from your MediaWiki root directory, enter the following commands:
php maintenance/createBcrat WikiSysop
php maintenance/changePassword --user=WikiSysop --password=
You may have to enter "password" twice in order for the account to work properly, which is why there is a call to "changePassword" after the account has been recreated and assigned sysop and bureacrat status.
mwdumper is not the correct tool if you want to maintain an existing wiki as it may not always work correctly if the MediaWiki databases have already been installed on the Fedora Core releases and may not provide useful output as to any errors occurring. Most of these problems are related to record and insertion rejection of SQL requests by the underlying MySQL database version you may be running. You may wish to test mwdumper with your particular OS distribution with a trial run to see if you encounter any of these problems. There are several fixes for some of these issues.
Known Problems
* mwdumper will fail with: ERROR 1153 (08S01) at line 2187: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes if your dumps contain large sections of unicode characters with Cherokee Unicode and other unicode texts and in most cases does not work at all with these dumps, even with the defaults in mysql set to utf8. One solution to this problem is to increase the max packet (request) size which can be input into mysql via INSERT commands. Try changing set-variable = max_allowed_packet=20M in your /etc/my.conf file and restart the mysqld program.
* mwdumper does not report errors when uploading to a system with a database that is not freshly created.
* mwdumper may not always complete the dump, even though it is reporting that it is and even if you have followed all the procedures listed here. Due to the lack of proper error handling in the program, it may be better to just run importDump.php if you encounter problems with this tool.
* if you run into problems using mwdumper to input directly into mysql on a particular Linux Distribution or version of the mysql database, consider setting up mwdumper to convert the XML dumps into an intermediate .sql file then import the output file directly into mysql rather then allowing mwdumper to do so.
* try passing the '-f' switch (force) with mysql to force record insertions into your MySQL database if mysql starts rejecting updates from the mwdumper program or reports duplicate key errors.
installing the fresh dump of wikipedia for the college LAN. After a few failures by using xml2sql,etc, Now am using mwdumper and directly putting the data into mysql. Here is one of the best pages that I found for installing wikipedia on a local computer. PS: Am working on Fedora 7. Windows user may find this useful. Other than this, there is also webaroo for windows. I have even tested this with windows Vista. The webaroo uses about 5.5 GB of disk space. Whereas the actual wikipedia dump for august is about 12 GB in xml format and 2.6 GB approx in bz2 format. The latest dumps can be downloaded from here. As to what you should download from there, read this.
Another important thing to be installed for wikipedia offline usage is mediawiki.
Here is an easy way of installing wikipedia for offline usage on a fedora based system..
Steps to get mwdumper to work on Redhat and Fedora Core Linux Distros with mysql 5.x
* 1. Destroy any existing database: i.e. mysqladmin drop
* 2. Recreate the database: i.e. mysqladmin create
* 3. DO NOT install MediaWiki until the database in uploaded. If MediaWiki is installed, mwdumper may not work.
* 3. Run the tables.sql function supplied with MediaWiki from the MediaWiki root directory: i.e. mysql -u root -p
* 4. Start mwdumper: i.e. java -jar mwdumper.jar --format=sql:1.5
* 5. You will have to manually enter admin status for WikiSysop accounts and run the upgrade.php script on the MediaWiki database in order to obtain WikiSysop access or install over the previous MediaWiki installation and import the databases in order to activiate the WikiSysop account. Add the following MediaWiki PHP file to your /maintenance directory by cutting and pasting the text, and name the file createBcrat.php, then recreate the WikiSysop account by executing the example scripts provided. The attached PHP file is for the MediaWiki 1.9.3 release.
file createBcrat.php
/**
* Maintenance script to create an account and grant it administrator and bureaucrat group membership
*
* @package MediaWiki
* @subpackage Maintenance
* @author Rob Church
* @author Jeff Merkey
*/
require_once( 'commandLine.inc' );
if( !count( $args ) == 2 ) {
echo( "Please provide a username and password for the new account.\n" );
die( 1 );
}
$username = $args[0];
$password = $args[1];
echo( wfWikiID() . ": Creating and promoting User:{$username}..." );
# Validate username and check it doesn't exist
$user = User::newFromName( $username );
if( !is_object( $user ) ) {
echo( "invalid username.\n" );
die( 1 );
} elseif( 0 != $user->idForName() ) {
echo( "account exists.\n" );
$user->addGroup( 'sysop' );
$user->addGroup( 'bureaucrat' );
$ssu->doUpdate();
echo( "done.\n" );
die( 1 );
}
# Insert the account into the database
$user->addToDatabase();
$user->setPassword( $password );
$user->setToken();
# Promote user
$user->addGroup( 'sysop' );
$user->addGroup( 'bureaucrat' );
# Increment site_stats.ss_users
$ssu = new SiteStatsUpdate( 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 );
$ssu->doUpdate();
echo( "done.\n" );
?>
Steps to recreate WikiSysop and add the account to groups "sysop" and "bureaucrat"
from your MediaWiki root directory, enter the following commands:
php maintenance/createBcrat WikiSysop
php maintenance/changePassword --user=WikiSysop --password=
You may have to enter "password" twice in order for the account to work properly, which is why there is a call to "changePassword" after the account has been recreated and assigned sysop and bureacrat status.
mwdumper is not the correct tool if you want to maintain an existing wiki as it may not always work correctly if the MediaWiki databases have already been installed on the Fedora Core releases and may not provide useful output as to any errors occurring. Most of these problems are related to record and insertion rejection of SQL requests by the underlying MySQL database version you may be running. You may wish to test mwdumper with your particular OS distribution with a trial run to see if you encounter any of these problems. There are several fixes for some of these issues.
Known Problems
* mwdumper will fail with: ERROR 1153 (08S01) at line 2187: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes if your dumps contain large sections of unicode characters with Cherokee Unicode and other unicode texts and in most cases does not work at all with these dumps, even with the defaults in mysql set to utf8. One solution to this problem is to increase the max packet (request) size which can be input into mysql via INSERT commands. Try changing set-variable = max_allowed_packet=20M in your /etc/my.conf file and restart the mysqld program.
* mwdumper does not report errors when uploading to a system with a database that is not freshly created.
* mwdumper may not always complete the dump, even though it is reporting that it is and even if you have followed all the procedures listed here. Due to the lack of proper error handling in the program, it may be better to just run importDump.php if you encounter problems with this tool.
* if you run into problems using mwdumper to input directly into mysql on a particular Linux Distribution or version of the mysql database, consider setting up mwdumper to convert the XML dumps into an intermediate .sql file then import the output file directly into mysql rather then allowing mwdumper to do so.
* try passing the '-f' switch (force) with mysql to force record insertions into your MySQL database if mysql starts rejecting updates from the mwdumper program or reports duplicate key errors.
Monday, August 06, 2007
A nice day..
Went to Madurai yesterday for organizing a quiz on behalf of IIM. Left hostel at 5.30 in the morning, IIM officials picked us up at 6. My friend Suman had come along. THere were in all four of us, the two of us and two IIM officials. Both of them work with BHEL. The second as a R&D person. Well the bus travel was a bit clumsy but thereafter it was all nice. The first thing that I noticed on getting off at the Madurai bus stand was that it was ISO certified. Wow..!! And here we are still thinking about getting the same for Pragyan. Anyways.. then we went off to the school where we were supposed to organize the quiz.. And then as there was still time left for the quiz to commence, we went off to the grandeur that Meenakshi Temple is. Its really huge. It was just the beginning of what was going to turn out to be as a real nice day. Saw quite a number of nice people.:) Anyways it was a nice day but the only thing that I didnt do and I am happy about is that we didnt exchange numbers.. Well that gives you n idea what the whole nice day was all about. Anyways, I had this feeling that maybe she wanted to exchange the numbers, and maybe aI would have had done so myself but eventually it never happened. And in the end am not so sad about it. Its better to have such small "happenings" to pep up your life rather than hoping for things that never turm up or happen the way you want them to. Or worse, cause you distress. It was a nice day. And at the end of it, I am a happy man!!
Went to Madurai yesterday for organizing a quiz on behalf of IIM. Left hostel at 5.30 in the morning, IIM officials picked us up at 6. My friend Suman had come along. THere were in all four of us, the two of us and two IIM officials. Both of them work with BHEL. The second as a R&D person. Well the bus travel was a bit clumsy but thereafter it was all nice. The first thing that I noticed on getting off at the Madurai bus stand was that it was ISO certified. Wow..!! And here we are still thinking about getting the same for Pragyan. Anyways.. then we went off to the school where we were supposed to organize the quiz.. And then as there was still time left for the quiz to commence, we went off to the grandeur that Meenakshi Temple is. Its really huge. It was just the beginning of what was going to turn out to be as a real nice day. Saw quite a number of nice people.:) Anyways it was a nice day but the only thing that I didnt do and I am happy about is that we didnt exchange numbers.. Well that gives you n idea what the whole nice day was all about. Anyways, I had this feeling that maybe she wanted to exchange the numbers, and maybe aI would have had done so myself but eventually it never happened. And in the end am not so sad about it. Its better to have such small "happenings" to pep up your life rather than hoping for things that never turm up or happen the way you want them to. Or worse, cause you distress. It was a nice day. And at the end of it, I am a happy man!!
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Ok, just read one of my own posts again and that is so...^^*&^*..
Anyways I have quit as the president of RMI even before I actually had the job. Kinda funny, but thats true. I walked out of it coz I dont think I could handle the responsibility. Anyways, I have been feeling much lighter after that decision. Maybe am feeling lighter coz of the fact that I dont really need to work for that any more. Maybe am relaxed coz .. so many things happen...
Anyways..
And people around you arent always actually the way they are... Whatever that means.
Anyways I have quit as the president of RMI even before I actually had the job. Kinda funny, but thats true. I walked out of it coz I dont think I could handle the responsibility. Anyways, I have been feeling much lighter after that decision. Maybe am feeling lighter coz of the fact that I dont really need to work for that any more. Maybe am relaxed coz .. so many things happen...
Anyways..
And people around you arent always actually the way they are... Whatever that means.
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